Games - A sign of things to come - MAJESTIC
"Majestic is coming! It uses the Web, phone, fax and email to put you in the center of your own suspense thriller."
"Majestic - it plays you."
"Majestic is an episodic online entertainment experience set against the backdrop of a grand and sinister conspiracy -- an unfolding mystery adventure that uses the internet as a canvas for its story, weaving the player through both real and fictional experiences in real-time. Highly personalized and naturally paced, Majestic tailors the experience specifically for each player as it dynamically changes the content of web pages, e-mails, faxes, voicemails and chat conversations in order to immerse the player at the very heart of a developing story. Majestic players assume the leading role in their own adventure, interacting with other characters, uncovering clues, searching for answers, collecting and using digital objects and resolving challenges to progress through the experience. Unlike other forms of entertainment, Majestic actively pursues and interacts with the user based on events developing within the fiction, creating a uniquely suspenseful entertainment experience."
web site - majestic.ea.com
If you've got Quicktime watch - ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/movies/majestic/maj-trailer-lo.mov
If not, here's Realplayer version - mfile.akamai.com
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Add wireless broadband (mobility) and GPS (context as the new, unique variable) and.....
contemplate the plethora of possibilities.......
Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy - or creating a secondary, synthetic reality?
An absorbing, addicting hybrid form of experiential recreation (think of the multiplicity of possible variations on this interactive theme). After spending a dreary 8 to 5 shift on the hamster wheel to pay the bills.... an opportunity to escape into an alternate identity.. This is digital heroin.
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